Elementary Schools

Campus clips: Groundbreakings and welcomes

Updates from LCMS day schools, universities and seminaries.

‘Connected’: Lutheran schools week resources available

National Lutheran Schools Week is set for Jan. 21–27, 2024.

Campus clips: LCMS schools wrap up busy year

The December edition of ‘Campus Clips.’

St. Martin Lutheran School for the Deaf: Teaching the ‘whole person’

St. Martin Lutheran School for the Deaf accepts students from preschool through eighth grade and operates in space provided by Emmanuel Lutheran Church and School in Dearborn, Mich.

Campus clips: Synod’s schools update, improve, expand

Updates from LCMS schools, universities and seminaries.

LCEF announces Kaleidoscope awards

A total of $592,606 was awarded to 28 LCMS schools throughout the United States.

Kaleidoscope Fund grants available for K–8 schools

The deadline to submit an application is June 1.

Carlson receives 2021 NLSA School Shepherd Award

The Rev. Eric Carlson is pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church and School in Hannibal, Mo.

‘In All Things’: New edition of ‘Chapel Talks’ now available

The annual resource is designed to assist Lutheran schools with weekly chapel.

NLSA selects Dinger for School Shepherd Award

The Rev. Jonathan Dinger, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church and School in Pocatello, Idaho, was selected by National Lutheran School Accreditation to receive the 2020 NLSA School Shepherd Award.

Browning recognized as 2020 National Distinguished Principal

Scott D. Browning, principal of St. Paul Lutheran School in Fort Worth, Texas, was selected by the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

Shutdowns offer LCMS schools new opportunities to serve

Among other efforts, LCMS schools assisted by making and delivering face shields; collecting food, cash and other supplies; and providing temporary educational solutions for those far from home.

‘Sent to Serve’: New ‘Chapel Talks’ resource now available

The 2020–21 “Chapel Talks” contains 43 devotions — one for each week of the school year — plus services for the beginning and ending of the school year and for Christmas.

‘Joy:fully Lutheran’ Chapel Talks now available

The resource contains 44 worship outlines, along with opening and closing services, for Lutheran school chapel.

Three-time NBA champion Shaun Livingston remembers his Midwestern Lutheran roots

Livingston, who graduated from Concordia Lutheran School in Peoria, Ill., in 2000, was recently inducted into the Junior Achievement of Central Illinois Hall of Fame.

Oldenettel named ‘National Distinguished Principal’

Dawn Oldenettel, principal of St. John’s Lutheran School in West Bend, Wis., received the award in October in Washington, D.C.